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HOT PAPERS IN BIOLOGY, RANKED BY CITATIONS RECEIVED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 1996 Date: May 12, 1997 RankPaperCitationsNov - Dec 1996Total citationsthrough March 1997 1 R.D. Fleischmann et al., "Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd," Science, 269:496-512, 1995. 70 459 2 J.D. Thompson, D.G. Higgins, T.J. Gibson, "CLUSTAL W: Improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific ga

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RankPaperCitationsNov - Dec 1996Total citationsthrough March 1997 1 R.D. Fleischmann et al., "Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd," Science, 269:496-512, 1995. 70 459 2 J.D. Thompson, D.G. Higgins, T.J. Gibson, "CLUSTAL W: Improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice," Nucleic Acids Research, 22:4673-80, 1994. 62 469 3 Y.Y. Zhang et al., "Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue," Nature, 372:425-32, 1994. 47 467 4 D.W. Nicholson et al., "Identification and inhibition of the ICE/CED-3 protease necessary for mammalian apoptosis," Nature, 376:37-43, 1995. 46 308 5 X. Wel et al., "Viral dynamics in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection," Nature, 373:117-22, 1995. 44 601 6 D.D. Ho et al., "Rapid turnover of plasma virions and CD4 lymphocytes in HIV-1 infection," Nature, 373:123-6, 1995. 43 640 7 R. Sherrington et al., "Cloning of a ...

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